Improvement in baskets



Basket.

Patented Jan. 14, 1879;

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NTTED STATES PATENT OEEIeE.

LEWIS STEVENS, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211.353, datedJanuary 14, 1879; application lcd October 13, 1877.

` der cross-slats in dotted lines; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the basket.

The object of my invention is to furnish an improved basket-bottom so constructed as to obviate the usual fault in baskets of being liable to be easily Worn through on the bottom, and of soon getting out of shape by rough handling while heavily laden.

Myinvention consistsin substituting a board bottom for the usual splint bottom, and securing it so as to raise it from the loor or ground, and also further supporting it by slats above anchbelow, as hereinafter shown and described. In the drawings, A, is the board bottom; s s1,

the cross-slats5 h, the outside hoop, and h the inside hoop; s2 s2, the upright slats of the basket, the lower ends of which are inserted between the bottom hoops, h h, and secured thereto. The cross-slats s s are,u drawn tightly across the top of the bottom board and nailed to the inside hoop h', and are also further secured by being fastened between the inside and outside hoops. bottom of the board are also secured between the hoops. The boardY bottom, being Sup ported by the inside hoop, is kept from contact with the floor or ground, and, while it strengthens the basket and keeps it in shape,

is not liable to be easilT worn ont.

I claim- In a basket, the combination of the bottom board, A, cross-slats s s and s1 sl, and upright slats s? s2, all the slats being secured between f 'I the outer hoop, 7L, and inner hoop, h', substantially as shown and described.

LEWIS STEVENS.

Witnesses:

I. I. RoGEEs, A. D. WALL.

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